Ultrathin Displays Will Yield Novel Devices

Here is something David Goldman, vice president of marketing for Lumus, never expected to come into the field of view of waveguides: Wine growers using augmented reality (AR) glasses to teach...

In 2017, Clay Bavor, then vice president of Google’s AR/VR division, spoke for all AR/VR device makers when he said, “We need pixels. Way, way more pixels.”1 The display industry...

Fiber, as a wearable material, offers breathability, flexibility, and resistance to wear, making it an ideal substrate for wearable devices. Using mature textile technology, color-changing fibers can...

Compared to conventional light sources, such as OLEDs and LCDs, micro-LEDs — inorganic LED chips <100 μm in size — show superior reliability, stability, and optoelectronic...

The GP-CVM600P series of 600-W LED constant voltage drivers from GlacialPower include nondimming, 3-in-1, and DALI-2 dimming versions. The direct-current output voltages include 12, 24, 36, 48,...

The CTM-18 and -22 from Luminus Devices are tunable chip-on-board (COB) lights that use color combination ranges from 6500 to 2700 K, 4000 to 1800 K, and high melanopic 5000 K Salud™ to 2200 K....

The LumaDrive™ Pre-wired Systems series from Advanced Energy Industries are high-efficiency remote centralized drivers for large-scale horticultural, greenhouse, and industrial LED lighting...

The Acuros GO 6 MP SWIR camera from SWIR Vision Systems is a portable, handheld mirrorless camera featuring the company's high-resolution colloidal quantum dot SWIR sensor technology. Able to capture...

Controlling and minimizing heat output is desirable in most lighting applications. For example, conventional incandescent light sources are very inefficient with only a small portion of the...

Intensity and uniformity can be described using different physical attributes, which makes interpreting requirements somewhat confusing. This article intends to provide an explanation and serve as a...

In the beginning, automated inspection focused on the camera and optics, the algorithms, the interface hardware and the processor. Only rarely was attention paid to the lighting system or lighting...

DATA TABLES: OPTICAL THIN-FILM MATERIALS Identification Physical Parameters Material Name Material Formula Transparent Region(µm) (see note a) Index at Wavelength...

This webinar will provide an overview of the state of the art in hyperspectral imaging, discussing the major architectures for hyperspectral imagers together with their performance trade-offs....

As demand for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) expands in and beyond datacom applications, so grows demand for pluggable and co-packaged PIC solutions offering higher levels of laser integration...

Today's AR/VR/MR, collectively XR, developers and manufacturers are working with a wide array of devices such as headsets, helmets, goggles, and smart glasses. New technologies and innovative optics...

The high variety of tailor-fitted molecular structures of Polyethylene (PE) can fulfill the requirements of various applications, however, it also poses difficulty in the mechanical recycling of...

Micro-optics refers to the design, fabrication, and application of optical components and systems at a microscale level. These components are miniaturized optical elements that manipulate light at a...

Scientific complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (sCMOS) refers to a type of image sensor technology specifically designed for scientific and industrial imaging applications. Unlike traditional...

Laser sintering is an additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing technology that involves using a laser to selectively fuse powdered materials, typically polymers or metals, layer by layer, to create...

A system-on-chip (SoC) is an integrated circuit (IC) that incorporates all necessary components of a computer or electronic system onto a single chip. This typically includes a microprocessor or...

Researchers at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered a new phenomenon of quantum cascade laser frequency combs, which would allow the devices to...

In this month's Light Matters Extra, we give you an in-depth look at North America's largest optical fabrication exhibition and show – Optifab 2017. 188 companies filled the showroom floor of the...

Technology Transfer Programs are often a concerted effort to share skills, knowledge, technologies, methods of manufacturing, samples of manufacturing, and facilities among governments or...

On this month's episode of Light Matters, we take you to the South by Southwest (SXSW) Trade Show in Austin, Texas, as new photonics innovations hit the show floor of the Austin Convention Center....